"A number of Ladakhi intellectuals and some of the more widely educated monks have gradually responded to the Western …"

"As if this is not enough, there is a deliberate and organised design to convert Kargil's Buddhists to Islam. In the l…"

"When Kashmir was under Muslim rule for 500 years, Hindus were constantly tortured and forcibly converted. A delegatio…"

"People [in Ladakh] were so so at ease with themselves and with the world, and so full of vitality and joy... I saw st…"

"In the past, Ladakhi children learned the skills needed to survive, even to prosper, in their difficult environment: …"

"Verse 460 of Bk. iii Rajat records: The royal couple (Ranaditya) built the temple of Ranarambhasvamin and Ranarambhad…"

"About the temple of Pravarasena, Stein records: A short distance to the S.E. of Bhimasvamin rock and outside Akbarís …"

"Stein tells us: Not far from Bahauíd-Din Sahibís ziarat, to the S.W., stands the Jamiía Masjid, the greatest Mosque o…"

"[T]he glorious silver [image of Visnu] Parihasakesava [which] shone like the god [Visnu] ... the famous [image of] Vi…"

"It was adorned with many fine temples and monuments; among others, with a pillar cut out of one stone, twenty four ya…"